Insights June 11th, 2020

Top Futurist Speaker Nikolas Badminton is one of the most sought after futurists in the world by trillion-dollar companies, progressive governments, and 200+ billion dollar investment funds. Nikolas works with these leaders to help them shift their mindset from what is to ‘WHAT IF..?’ and into brighter futures.

In doing so he has given some incredible keynotes and we wanted to highlight 4 here for you. If you like these then do reach out to Nikolas.

1. TBM Conference – ‘The Power of Insights’

On the 5th November, 2019 Nikolas Badminton spoke to the 2000+ attendees at Apptio’s Technical Business Management (TBM) Conference in Las Vegas. Here he talks about the value of data today and how it underpins our understand the potential of the future.

2. United Way – ‘Our Brave New World’

Nikolas spoke to 1800+ delegates at United Way Worldwide inspirational Community Leadership and Impact Conference event. He talks about the age of acceleration, exponential technologies and our need for deep empathy in creating the new world so no-one is left behind.

3. Google – ‘The future of children, technology, and privacy’

Nikolas talks about how platforms, devices, and algorithms have hijacked the family. And, what choices we have to protect our privacy. Nikolas was invited to give his keynote was by 3Q and Google at their 3Questions Partner Summit at Google in Mountain View, CA. Essential viewing.

4. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – Resilience Frontiers Opening Keynote

The United Nations Climate Change secretariat invited Nikolas Badminton to be the opening keynote at the Resilience Frontiers conference Songdo, South Korea – see more at resiliencefrontiers.org.

Over 100 people spent 5 days imagining solutions to create a resilient future from 2030 and beyond with the inevitability of climate change. Here is Nikolas’ opening keynote setting the tone for the design activities and big thinking for the attendees imagining what resilience in 2030 and beyond.

You can see the talk article here at ‘Creating Resilience to Climate Change’.

Also, take a look at some of Nikolas’ most recent and essential insights:

5 Reasons to Hire a Futurist in a Pandemic

The Future of Wellness (a talk with Anheuser-Busch and Canopy Growth)

Future of Life in America – Sex and Social Distancing

Cities Society Work
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Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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